Quest of the Seekers: Animals Within
Year Two at Hogwarts
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Chapter 5: The Four Seekers
"Alright guys, before I cast this spell you have to be thinking of the animal you want to be. You'll have to think on what it is while I cast the spell."
"Wow" said Jacke. "You really studied the spell hard Brad. No one can say Hufflepuffs are idiots now."
"Flattered," said Brad dully but Tyler could find the sarcasm. "Alright lets go." Reggie, Jacke and Tyler closed their eyes as Brad raised his wand. "Benstium Modian!"
He let out a white beam that hit his friends and then Brad pointed his wand at himself and re-said the incantation. Tyler felt the pictures of snakes racing through his mind and before his eyes.
After the feeling was gone, Tyler looked at himself to see he didn't seem different. His friends also looked the same but gave off expressions that they spent the last few moments falling from the sky.
"Reggie, what do we do now?"
"Well, according to the book, we start by mentally transfiguring our limbs without our wands. It also says to have patience since it could take years to get results."
"Well then we should start," said Jacke. "If it takes that long then we have to start early if we want to be animagi."
"I'm with you Jacke. I want to be that snake."
"Hold on future Mr.'s Scaly and Furry, we have to make a training program. Didn't you say that this is illegal Reggie?"
"Well if we get registered then it isn't."
"No" said Tyler quickly.
His three friends looked surprised at him and Tyler mentally slapped himself. "Sorry, it's just that I don't want to be asked where I got the book, remember?"
"Oh...right" said Brad. "Well then it'll be a secret. I mean we already have a powerful secret don't we."
"Fine with me" said Jacke. "I like being part of a group with such powerful secrets. Next we become a secret society."
"Like that ever happen. I guess it'll be okay to keep it secret. Let's just be careful in the future okay. It would be real bad if one of us subconsciously transform during a class."
"Like I said earlier, Dejavu," said Brad in a mystifying voice.
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It had been two days since that time in the cave. At that moment, Tyler, Jacke and Reggie were on the pitch, sitting in the stands wishing Brad luck. He was in his quidditch tryouts and was now zooming after the snitch. He spent around two minutes tailing it until he had it in his hand. He held it up in a winning fashion as he started to land. The peop0le on the Hufflepuff team were clapping at Brad's performance. The captain, Kathy Jackson was seen excitingly writhing on a clipboard and Tyler could've swore she had an overdone smile.
"Alright, now I like to announce our new team's seeker: Brad Carter!"
Tyler, Jacke and Reggie stood from their seats and cheered at their friend's success. Jacke and Reggie had already gotten spots on their teams. This marked that now all four of them were on the same position on their teams.
"Congratulations Brad," said Reggie when they met up with him. They were sitting at their usual relaxing spot on the grounds by a tree.
"Well I guess my spot on the team made our group a sports group."
"Yeah" said Tyler. "We're the seekers on our teams."
"Hey" said Jacke quietly.
"What?"
"Maybe that's what we should call ourselves. The Seekers. We all are already in a group and like any good group we need to have a name for ourselves."
"The Seekers" said Tyler in an undertone. Jacke was right on what he said. They all were seekers on their teams, they all wanted to expand their abilities; they were in a way already a group. Also, it sounded very cool. "I like it."
"It kind of reminds me of what the last group at Hogwarts was called," said Brad. "The Marauders have left and now we have moved in. The Seekers."
"It does make sense, we're in a group. But what is our group going to be about. I don't want to get in trouble in a pranking group."
"Who said we want to prank people. That was the Marauders not us" said Tyler sharply. He still got a little touchy about the Marauders every time they were mentioned. He still hadn't forgotten the fight he had with them. Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew didn't anger him but it was the other two that he had anger towards: James Potter and Regulus' older brother Sirius Black. "And we could dedicate our group to having many adventures and getting all the different kinds of powers we could get."
"I definitely like the sound of that Tyler," said Jacke. "We could learn a whole lot more of the world then here at Hogwarts on its own. So what do you say Reggie? You could look at this as a...very different kind of study group."
"Well it does sound cool," said Reggie in a low voice. "I mean it does have four different wizards so we won't have to worry about which seeker is which...I'm in."
"Great, it's settled. From now on I'm the Gryffindor Seeker."
"You are the Gryffindor seeker," said Brad trying to point the obvious out to Jacke thinking he had forgot.
"No I mean that in our group. Brad, you're the hufflepuff seeker, Reggie, the ravenclaw seeker, Tyler, the slytherin seeker."
"Yeah, we're from now on, The Seekers," said Tyler with a high proud voice living up to his slytherin pride. "We'll be way better than the marauders were."
"Yeah but the real things of what we're about will stay a secret unlike them."
"Well I guess we should mark this new group with a hands in."
"What's a hands in Brad?"
"Well, in the muggle world, when friends make a bond or club they put their hands in a pile and as then throw them up."
"Well...that...seems strange but why not try it," Tyler said as shrugging his shoulders. "How does it work?"
"Okay first I put mine like this." He put his hand out in front of him. "Then we stack our hands." Then they put their hands in a stock atop of Brad's. "Then we bring them up and say our group's name on the count to three. Got it?"
"Yeah."
"Definitely."
"Sure."
"Alright, 1,2,3"
Then, as one, they brought their hands up and they chanted "Seekers!" and then after a second they smiled.
"That was great," said Reggie.
"Yeah, muggles do know how to make you happy even though they can't do magic," Jacke said sounding impressed.
"I agree," added Tyler. Then he looked to his watch for the time. "It's getting a little late. I better get going back to the Slytherin common room. I'll see you later fellow seekers."
He waved bye to his friends and headed to the common room. While walking he thought back on what jus happened. He along with Jacke, Brad and Reggie formed their own group, The Seekers. A slytherin, gryffindor, hufflepuff and ravenclaw made their own little gang. Tyler thought he was the luckiest parselmouth to have ever been alive to have friends. But he couldn't rely on luck to get by. There, after all, was a slytherin saying about luck, which he knew was right but still annoyed with it. "Luck is like falling off a broom midair, sooner or later you'll hit the ground."
He arrived at the common room to find Matt working on a charm for Flitwick's class. They had just practiced a time charm, designed to make a puff of smoke with a clock to tell the time, and Matt was a little rusty.
"Hey Matt. Still trying the time charm, huh?"
"Yeah, by the way, where were you this whole time? I wanted to practice with you."
"Oh, I was at the pitch checking out the tryouts for the Hufflepuff team and stayed with my friends after. Brad was picked to be the team's seeker."
"Oh you hung out with them huh?" Matt didn't really like his other friends too much.
"Yeah and it turns out that all four of us got into our house teams and play the same position – seeker."
"Well then...how is it going to affect you guys when you play against each other?"
"Well, I guess that it really won't, after all, we already get affected by our houses being different." He took a look at Matt after saying this. "But really the fact that with us playing against each other will just make it even more exciting."
"I'm sure it will," said a voice.
"Hey Regulus."
"Hi Regulus."
"Hello mates. I couldn't help but overhear about the new...arrangements for you guys."
"Bet you couldn't," Tyler said a little sarcastically.
"I hope you could live up to your words after what I just heard from Nott."
"What did you hear?"
"The first quidditch match of Gryffindor vs. Slytherin was moved up to two weeks from tomorrow."
"But it's supposed to be around Halloween, not around the beginning of October."
"Dumbledore moved the date up."
Tyler had a shocked expression but could still hear Matt mumble, "Now things get interesting." This earned a glare from Tyler.
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The days leading to the first match seemed to be ticking by like hands on a clock. Perhaps it was due to the fact that it was Tyler's first match or because it was when he would face off against Jacke. Also they became very stressful because of the tension that the Gryffindors and Slytherins showed on each other. Jacke told him about the pats that the Gryffindors gave him to wish him luck. Also, a few slytherins considered trying to send his best friend to the hospital wing but Tyler warned Jacke ahead of time of their plans and helped him avoid traps by sticking with him so the slytherins don't touch him since they wouldn't want to injure him. They would've liked to now that Severus wasn't there to scare them not to but they didn't want to hurt their OWN seeker.
The training that Tyler went through was brutal. Oakmire made a program especially to test Tyler's ability to catch the snitch at the toughest conditions. He ordered the beaters Dellen and Tanner to beat both bludgers at him while trying to find the snitch. It was close but Tyler managed to catch it after 35 minutes but thought it was a relief since he could feel the bludgers brush on him a few times. He felt like choking the Quidditch captain for his "special" training program for him. When he complained Oakmire merely said, "You have to be prepared for the worst."
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Two weeks later it was time. Tyler still couldn't believe the day had come. Instead of going to the great hall, he sat on the grounds near the stadium, unable to eat breakfast. Then Jacke came up to him and sat beside him. Jacke seemed just as pale and nervous as he was. Tyler and Jacke looked at each other nervously waiting for one of them to talk first. They were at it for two minutes until Tyler decided that he was going to live up to his words. 'Regulus, you did your reverse backtalking again' thought Tyler again a little annoyed at the thought of his older friend. He had done this when he and Jacke have had their argument last year and now he did it again right before they were going to face each other at quidditch. He extended his hand out and Jacke shook it without a second wasted.
"Good luck Jacke because you'll need it."
"Wow...I was going to say the same to you, you stole my line," Jacke said with very obvious sarcasm and mock anger.
"I'm not going to hold back out there."
"Good, because if you did then I would've killed you. Don't expect to win."
"Damn it Jacke, now you stole what I was going to say."
Soon Tyler changed into green quidditch robes. The Gryffindors would be in red.
Oakmire then started to address the team. "Alright, here is the start to a new line of victories. We may have lost the cup to Gryffindor again but now their star players have left and it's time to show what our new players can do against theirs. If you don't give it your all then believe me when I say that I'll make sure you regret it."
'What a motivator' thought Tyler sarcastically.
They were ready at the arena doors and then Tyler could hear the sound of the quidditch commentator starting the game.
End of Chapter five.
Nightlit: I'm glad you are still keeping track of my story line. Also, it's great to see that you kept up with your story. I was really worried you stopped.
Author Notes:
Well like I've said before this is the end of this chapter. Now you know what the title stands for. The Quest of the Seekers refers to their new group The Seekers. Also, I know this chapter didn't have any action in it but don't worry there will be more action coming up. Any good story has it's delays on that which builds its way to it. The next chapter will soon be added. It will be the Gryffindors vs the Slytherins but further more The Gryffindor "Seeker" against the Slytherin "Seeker". It's Jacke vs. Tyler and don't miss it as they try to beat each other to that golden snitch. Chapter 6: Best Friends at Opposite Ends.
Also I saw the third Harry Potter movie and I really liked it. It was very suspenseful. I even got the game for Playstation 2 and I finally beat it! I was working on it for hours a day which left me little time all week to upload the next chapter.
Review and tell me what you think and don't be shy. I'm doing this for you fellow harry potter fans.